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The English Football League Championship, known simply as the Championship in England and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet Championship, [ 1] is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, after the Premier League, and is currently contested by 24 clubs.
The match determined the fourth and final team to gain promotion from EFL League Two, the fourth tier of English football, to EFL League One. The top three teams of 2023–24 EFL League Two , Stockport County , Wrexham and Mansfield Town gained automatic promotion to League One, while the clubs placed from fourth to seventh in the table took part in the 2024 English Football League play-offs ...
The English Football League Championship play-offs are a series of play-off matches contested by the association football teams finishing from third to sixth in the EFL Championship table and are part of the English Football League play-offs. As of 2024, the play-offs comprise two semi-finals, where the team finishing third plays the team ...
As with the end to the previous season, the season was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in games being played behind closed doors.However, on 19 September 2020, two matches in the division, between Norwich City and Preston North End at Carrow Road, and between Middlesbrough and Bournemouth at The Riverside Stadium, were held in front of 1,000 spectators, as part of EFL pilots.
The play-offs were introduced to the English Football League in 1987 and have been staged at the conclusion of every season since. The first three play-off seasons saw the finals also being conducted over two legs, on a home-and-away basis. Since 1990 the winners of each division's play-off competition have been determined in a one-off final.
Sky television's acquisition of rights to broadcast live Premier League football from the start of the 1992–93 season saw them attempt innovations such as digital on-screen graphics (DOG) and Monday night live games. The first Monday Night Football game broadcast was between Manchester City and Queens Park Rangers on 17 August 1992, which ...
2025 →. The English Football League play-offs for the 2023–24 season (referred to as the Sky Bet Play-Offs for sponsorship reasons) were held in May 2024 with all finals being staged at Wembley Stadium in London . The play-offs began in each league with two semi-finals which were played over two legs. The teams who finished in 3rd to 6th ...
Why Keira Walsh is irreplaceable for England. Women’s World Cup 2023: England edge past Denmark to lead Group D. 15:30, Mike Jones. Former England forward Ellen White explains how big of a loss ...